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'GAZETTEER OF PERSIA. VOL. III.' [‎402v] (809/982)

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The record is made up of 1 volume (487 folios). It was created in 1910. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .

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SAR—SAR
SAR-I-YAZD— Lat. 31° 36' 4" N. Long. 54° 34' E. Elev. 4,800 / .
A village of 500 houses in the Yazd district about 23 miles from
Yazd, on the road to Kirman. It is a considerable village, with a post-house
and caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). , and is the last in the Yazd district; climate is healthy.
Population 2,200. 240,000 lbs. wheat and barley, 3,600 lbs. cotton, 1,200
lbs. tobacco, also fruits and vegetables. Three qandts, two brackish, one
sweet. Fuel and grazing scanty. There are 400 fighting-men who possess
some Martini rifles, 500 sheep and goats, 300 donkeys, 400 camels. Taxes,
£600 per annum.— (Sykes—Sher Jang, 1902.)
SARlZ or SIRIZ— Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in Kirman about 6 miles west of Sang, on the road to, and 145
miles from, Yazd. It was deserted in 1894.— (Abbott — Sykes, 1894.)
SAR-I-ZIR— Lat. Long Elev.
A village in the Anar District (q. v.) of Kirman.
SAR-I-Z0R— Lat. Long. Elev.
A hill between Shiraz and Fehlian, Fars, over which winds the road con
necting them.—( Kinneir — J ones.)
SAR KALEH —Lat. Long. Elev.
A village in the Muguvi Bakhtiari country, on the track between Masir
and Kaleh Huma and 6 miles from the former.— (Sawyer, 1890.)
SARKHEH—
A division of the Bani Lam (q.v.)
SARKHDN— Lat. 31° 45' N. Long. 50° 40' E. Elev. 4,880'.
A caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). in the Bakhtiari country, the 7th stage from Isfahan (124
miles) on the Bakhtiari caravan route. There are no habitations other than
the serai, which is usually in such an unsanitary condition as to be unfit for
occupation. It is badly built of stone and mortar with oak trunks and boughs,
and is in a ruinous condition. It is 50 yards square. A good, though
small, camping-ground faces the serai. This is also unsanitary as a rule. A
smalLirregular space, impeded by boulders, between the first bend of the
A.o-i-Sarkhun and the torrent-bed, will accomodate a small party. There is
also some space inside the caravanserai A roadside inn providing accommodation for caravans (groups of travellers). for transport or stores. Many other
grounds are available farther south along the river, when not under culti
vation. _ A remarkable spring gushes out of a perpendicular rock west of
the serai, wrth such volume as to form a good-sized stream in the course of
Jew yards. This stream, which waters the Hilisat valley, is known as the Ab
i-Hihsat and the Ab-i-Sarkhun. It is crossed by a bridge at the spring head.
Fractically no supplies are available for men, though a considerable quantity
could be obtained from up the Bazuft valley. Forage for 200 animals for
Ln Y^ 011 d ?xT bably be obtainabl e- The price per Shahi man of 13 lb
n October _and Wember, 1906, was—for wheat, 2 tew,—barley, 150
ZT hh l S ^ 5 ooo^ mm and bread ’ 2 ' 50 krdns - Temperature in August
^ 1° ^ ~ 83 r 1902—.Burton, 1903—Norton, 1905—
ArbuMmot, 1905—ZonVner, 1906.)

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The item is Volume III of the four-volume Gazetteer of Persia (1910 edition).

The volume comprises that portion of south-western Persia, which is bounded on the west by the Turco-Persian frontier; on the north and east by a line drawn through the towns of Khaniqin [Khanikin], Isfahan, Yazd, Kirman, and Bandar Abbas; and on the south by the Persian Gulf The historical term used to describe the body of water between the Arabian Peninsula and Iran. .

The gazetteer includes entries on villages, towns, administrative divisions, districts, provinces, tribes, halting-places, religious sects, mountains, hills, streams, rivers, springs, wells, dams, passes, islands and bays. The entries provide details of latitude, longitude, and elevation for some places, and information on history, communications, agriculture, produce, population, health, water supply, topography, climate, military intelligence, coastal features, ethnography, trade, economy, administration and political matters.

Information sources are provided at the end of each gazetteer entry, in the form of an author or source’s surname, italicised and bracketed.

The volume contains an index map, dated July 1909, on folio 488.

The volume also contains a glossary (folios 481-486).

Compiled in the Division of the Chief of the General Staff, Army Headquarters, India.

Printed at the Government Monotype Press, India.

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1 volume (487 folios)
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Foliation: the foliation sequence for this description commences at the front cover with 1, and terminates at the inside back cover with 489; these numbers are written in pencil, are circled, and are located in the top right corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. side of each folio. Pagination: the volume also contains an original printed pagination sequence.

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